Job description

• Doyouhave lived experience of using forensic services/mental health services?
• Doyouwant to use your lived experience to support other people?
• Doyouwant to change lives?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Peer Support Worker who have personal lived experience of forensic services or using secondary mental health services. The Peer Support Workers will be supporting service users who are in the process of being discharged from secure forensic services to community living.

The Peer Support Workers will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team including other therapy staff to support the delivery of person-centred care which could include one-to-one sessions and community outings, as well as an opportunity to co-produce and co-deliver recovery-based groups and sessions. You will be working directly with service users who are in the community – providing practical support and advice.

The Peer Support Workers will use their lived experience to promote and model recovery, use empathy, build strong rapport and share experiences to support service users to develop healthy, structured and independent lives in the community.

Job Description Peer Support Worker Intensive Enablement Team
1. To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users based on the values and principles of Peer Support informed by the HEE Peer Competency Framework.

2. Help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, assisting with creating a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) which will feed into the care planning process.

3. Draw on your mutual resources and lived experience as a peer utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience to support service users.

4. Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the appropriate sharing of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in service users.

5. Support service users to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship , trust and honesty, challenging negative self-talk.

6. Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable service users to participate in community activities.

7. Act as a positive role model demonstrating professional and recovery-oriented practice and language towards other multi-disciplinary team members, service users and carers.

8. Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

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